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Nelly-Ange Kontchou
me. These are the bodies I will open up and sew back together this summer. These are the bodies I will fight to preserve through research on innovative models for cardiac surgery in my country. My spirit shifts; it lifts. I am exactly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
handwritten pages of Class Notes) to come to his home in nearby West Newton. But Brigham, 92, will hear nothing of it. “It’s just a short drive down the Pike,” he says. Hip replacement surgery has done little to slow down Brigham, who... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
conditions than can be solved with a prescription or a surgery can cleanly evaluate the results of their doctors' interventions. But the reviews of consumers with chronic conditions may not be so reliable. They may never be... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) Watch an interview with Professor Kaplan on VBHCD Medical Conditions The VBHCD team has examined the following medical conditions: Acute Conditions Joint (knee and hip) replacements Cancer: Head and neck, breast, prostate – View Details
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Laura Arjona
leaders." At the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, Laura worked with the CEO and the management team on a number of strategic and operations projects, including processes for running the operating rooms more efficiently.... View Details
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Andrew Dervan
operations in a General Electric jet engine facility. "I think of the operating room from the perspective of a doctor," Andrew says. "But wouldn't it be great if I could learn from GE, if I could gain expertise in workflows to coordinate more View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208145 Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004) Harvard Business School Case 608-151 Dr. Bradford Shingleton has developed some of the highest-quality eye View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Kevin Bennet (MBA 1980) chairs the hospital’s 102-year-old engineering department, where some of the first machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery were developed. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- Fast Answer
Transforming Health Care Delivery
sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">-computer assisted surgery -cloudbased healthcare -telemedicine Frost & Sullivan - health care market research emphasizing science/technology that is ready for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
surgery on the dog and oversaw a physical therapy program that included exercise on an underwater treadmill. After three weeks, Ginger was walking again. Anderson has a few words of advice for alumni who may be considering a change of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
only one thing, eye surgery or heart surgery or orthopedic surgery and so on. But to think that an environmental organization could sustain itself by selling mugs and T-shirts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs Institute Associates Institute Associates Kevin J. Bozic, Senior Institute Associate Dr. Kevin Bozic is the inaugural Chair of View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
guy who looked like he might have worked in finance (yes!). It turned out that he had, before going to medical school and traveling to Africa where he worked on a ship that docked in various ports performing lifesaving surgeries on... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
not performing the surgery at all, and treating the case in a different way. Value may be still greater if preventive care and advice is provided over time so that little or no treatment is needed at all. The relevant business in health... View Details
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Andrew Kinard
go next?" Much of that immediate future was occupied by seventy-five surgeries and eighteen months of rehabilitation. While recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, however, a chance encounter opened new possibilities. "I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
prevent high-cost incidents that could occur later,” says Kaplan. Incentives are misplaced In one study, for example, Kaplan and Haas looked at the cost of joint-replacement surgery at 30 large orthopedic hospitals across the United... View Details
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David Soled
ACL. Shortly after, I had surgery and started recovery. I missed a few days of class, and on my first day back, I experienced a wide range of feelings: extreme pain in my knee, nerves about being back, and angst about the previous missed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
up an advanced and highly aggressive cancer. Even with a hideous year of surgeries and chemotherapy, the best I could hope for was a 50 percent chance of surviving the next five years. I was forced into an abrupt fire sale of the business... View Details